Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another problem which would come up is that of providing a groundwork for the necessary large-scale planning, "in terms of those phases of economics, of sociology, of public administration and public finance, which bear on education as a national undertaking...
...prepared and would not scruple to invade Holland, Belgium or both. Or it may be that their savage hordes will be hurled against their innocent neighbors in the southeast of Europe. They might well do more than one of these things in preparation for an attempt at large-scale attack on the western portion of this country...
...bituminous coal industry has not had a profitable year since 1925. Price wars, bootless labor squabbles, excess capacity, invasion of its markets by fuel oil, gas and water power have starved it. Its rachitic bones show through in dingy, paint-scaled mining towns, in the pay average of its workers: $902 (before deductions) last year, although their daily wage scale is $6 ($5.60 in the South). Prime exemplar of old-fashioned atomic competition, the industry has 13,500 producers, none of whom does 5% of the total business...
From Chicago to Los Angeles and Fort Worth to Seattle, the new service's rates are the same: a basic 8?-a-mile with a 10-mile-per-hour minimum, a sliding scale for rising mileage with an ultimate 6½?-a-mile for a minimum 1,000 miles a week, gas, oil, maintenance, and insurance included. Cars: five-passenger Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Studebaker and Hudson sedans. Telegrams to reserve cars are free, and arrangements can be made to charge automobile rentals against credit cards...
...only: $3 a day plus 5? a mile ($4 a day, 6? a mile in New York City). Free taxis to the agency are included. Hope for their plan (and for Railway Extension) was advanced by the experience of the New Haven, which pioneered the idea on a limited scale in 1938, has found it adds about 50 passengers a month in nine New England cities...